Login using external side login system

[thunderbird22]

Hi guys.

 

What I want to create is really complicated. Well I have a login system that works with post on an external website.

I have my own website, but they do not give me access to the database for security reasons, therefore I have to use their login system to verify my users.

What their website does is that it has a post, with username and password. The POST website is lets say "https://www.example.com/login".

If login is achieved (i.e. username and password are correct), it will redirect me to "https://www.example.com/login/success" else it will redirect me to "https://www.example.com/login/retry".

 

So I want a PHP script that will do that post, and then according to the redirected website address it will return me TRUE for success, FALSE for not successful login.

 

Any idea??

 

Thanks

[tomfmason]

You should have a look at curl and more specifically curl_setopt. It looks like you will need to use the following options:  CURLOPT_HEADER(to get the headers),CURLOPT_NOBODY(because you don't need the actual content), and CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION(set to 0 because you don't need to follow the redirect). You can then inspect the response headers for the url you are being redirected to.